Category Archives: Philosophy

The Walkers High – Entering Flow

The runner’s high is well documented with testimonials and scientific reasoning. It is the state of euphoria that overcomes the runner after a period of exertion.  Athletes report a lapse in anxiety and a higher pain threshold. Strangely, it does not manifest in all runners. As a walker I am interested in the translation ofContinue reading “The Walkers High – Entering Flow”

An Urban Tramp – Podcast

Not all walking journeys traverse a mountain range, watersheds or plains. Urban walking the green wedges of our cities offer us clues to those who inhabit the community one is passing through. You can take the temperature of society. The quality of the local creeks, the amount and type of litter you pick up, theContinue reading “An Urban Tramp – Podcast”

A Journey On Country.

“Knowledge and skills trump equipment, so learn as much as you can” – Gordon Dedman, Bushcraft Survival Australia. Dangerous ideas are contained within. Enter at own risk. This essay addresses the modern dilemma of PLB’s, sat phones, personal responsibility, preparation and mortality. If you have ever thought about the olde ways on expedition, you should invest some time with this opinion piece.

Start Walking every day and this will change

Dave Paul from “Walking is fitness” YouTube channel evangelizes the practice of walking. He is a quality communicator and talks to the sacrament of immersionem at 5:21. A sacred lesson to reflect on. “You start to think differently about yourself. That internal tape that is scrolling, the way you think about yourself goes from IContinue reading “Start Walking every day and this will change”

Quote: Stephen Graham: The Gentle art of tramping

The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience. In tramping you are not earning a living, but earning a happiness. There is perhaps no greater test of friendship than going on a long tramp. You discover to one another all the egoisms and selfishnesses youContinue reading “Quote: Stephen Graham: The Gentle art of tramping”